Novel industry-university engineering education cooperation practice: Open Summer School 2018 co-organized by SEU, Xilinx, and ICisC

Abstract

Partnerships between universities and industry can help provide engineering students with education, hands-on experiences, and skills needed to become successful professionals. This paper describes a summer school offered as an alternative to an internship for undergraduate and graduate engineering students as part of a university-industry-government collaboration in China. Many Chinese colleges and universities are still troubled by the lack of effective internship resources, lack of opportunities to study new technologies directly from industry, and the poor continuity of university-industry cooperation projects. This paper describes the first offering of an open FPGA summer school led by Southeast University, Xilinx, and ICisC, a government based industry service company. The summer school was held for 15 consecutive days in July 2018 in Nanjing. It included two stages: technical training and project development. Xilinx provided the training content and training instructors. Southeast University provided event planning and some training instructors. ICisC provided the venue and logistical support. The summer school provided participating students with the latest industry technical training and real industry engineering projects, which can effectively expand their understanding of the industry and cultivate their practical and teamwork skills. 96 students from throughout China completed the entire program. Feedback from a survey at the end of the summer school showed that more than 70% of the students were highly satisfied with the program overall, the projects, and the environment. Students were enthusiastic in their support for the program with 77% wanting to participate in follow-up activities and 87% willing to recommend such activities to their teachers and classmates. This program is a good example of a successful university-industry-government partnership to provide an alternative internship experience for students that could serve as a model for other universities with similar aims. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2019.

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Engineering education Technical presentations Education computing Students Service industry Computer control systems Colleges and universities University industries Project development Engineering project Follow-up activities Graduate engineering students Logistical support University-industry-government partnerships

Author Affiliations

School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Xilinx Inc., San Jose, CA, United States

University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States

Funding & Acknowledgements

Grant: 2017-025

Funding text 1: Susan M. Lord received a B.S. from Cornell University and the M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is currently Professor and Chair of Integrated Engineering at the University of San Diego. Her teaching and research interests include inclusive pedagogies, electronics, optoelectronics, materials science, first year engineering courses, feminist and liberative pedagogies, engineering student persistence, and student autonomy. Her research has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Lord is a fellow of the ASEE and IEEE and is active in the engineering education community including serving as General Co-Chair of the 2006 Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference, on the FIE Steering Committee, and as President of the IEEE Education Society for 2009-2010. She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Education. She and her coauthors were awarded the 2011 Wickenden Award for the best paper in the Journal of Engineering Education and the 2011 and 2015 Best Paper Awards for the IEEE Transactions on Education. In Spring 2012, Dr. Lord spent a sabbatical at Southeast University in Nanjing, China teaching and doing research.; Funding text 2: The authors would like to thank all the students and Lecturers participating this Summer School event. The program is financially supported by Brand Major Program of Jiangsu Province and Education Research Project of Southeast University (2017-025).

National Science Foundation, NSF

Funding text 1: Susan M. Lord received a B.S. from Cornell University and the M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is currently Professor and Chair of Integrated Engineering at the University of San Diego. Her teaching and research interests include inclusive pedagogies, electronics, optoelectronics, materials science, first year engineering courses, feminist and liberative pedagogies, engineering student persistence, and student autonomy. Her research has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Lord is a fellow of the ASEE and IEEE and is active in the engineering education community including serving as General Co-Chair of the 2006 Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference, on the FIE Steering Committee, and as President of the IEEE Education Society for 2009-2010. She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Education. She and her coauthors were awarded the 2011 Wickenden Award for the best paper in the Journal of Engineering Education and the 2011 and 2015 Best Paper Awards for the IEEE Transactions on Education. In Spring 2012, Dr. Lord spent a sabbatical at Southeast University in Nanjing, China teaching and doing research.; Funding text 2: The authors would like to thank all the students and Lecturers participating this Summer School event. The program is financially supported by Brand Major Program of Jiangsu Province and Education Research Project of Southeast University (2017-025).

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Novel industry-university engineering education cooperation practice: Open Summer School 2018 co-organized by SEU, Xilinx, and ICisC

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